With Pride Month in full swing, it's a great time to check out some LGBTQ-themed films you might not have gotten around to watching yet.
In honor of Pride Month, Amazon Prime Video has curated a collection of queer films and television series all in one place for you to peruse.
Click here to find not only Amazon Original entertainment including Transparent, A Very English Scandal and Made in Heaven, but award-winning LGBTQ films like:
1985: Shot on black-and-white super 16mm film, "1985" takes a unique look at a pivotal moment in American history through the prism of empathy, love and family. Starring Cory Michael Smith ("Gotham"), Virginia Madsen (Academy Award Nominee, “Sideways”), Michael Chiklis (Golden Globe Winner, "The Shield") and Jamie Chung ("The Gifted").
Leather: A young man, Birch, lives in the Catskill Mountains, in a cottage in a remote region with Walter, an older man who has an estranged gay son, Andrew. Birch and Walter make items from leather. After his father dies, Andrew returns home with Kyle, his boyfriend from the city. Birch captivates Andrew and Kyle, bringing up feelings and complicating their relationship.
Saturday Church: A 14-year-old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process. Festival Favorite of Tribeca 2017
Porcupine Lake: Thirteen-year-old Bea (Charlotte Salisbury) wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate (Lucinda Armstrong Hall) she gets more than she ever imagined. Porcupine Lake is a story of bravery and the secret world of girls set in northern Ontario during a hot and hazy summertime when adulthood has not yet arrived, but childhood is quickly vanishing.
Quiet Heroes: In Salt Lake City, Utah, the ubiquity of the Mormon Church complicated the AIDS crisis: patients received little support from-or were cast out by-their communities. With many patients abandoned by nearly everyone they knew, Dr. Kristen Ries and Maggie Snyder, PA-C partnered with an order of Catholic nuns to create a safe haven amidst a sea of hate and fear for those with nowhere else to turn.
Transmilitary: At a time when transgender people are banned from serving in the U.S. military, four transgender troops risking discharge fight to attain the freedom they so fiercely protect. 2018 SXSW Audience Award Winner, Best Documentary.
Call Her Ganda: When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transwoman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case-an activist attorney (Virgie Suarez), a transgender journalist (Meredith Talusan) and Jennifer's mother (Julita "Nanay" Laude)-galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.
This is just a tiny portion of Amazon's 'Must-Watch Pride' list. Click over to check out all the selections.
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